• @moonbunny
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    165 hours ago

    This looks great, but I feel like the trees might become a problem to the adjacent buildings when they mature, unless they’re the type of trees that only grow tall and skinny?

    • @[email protected]
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      435 minutes ago

      Not every tree essence grows as much as oak. I know some linden trees, older than I am, that where pruned properly one or twice a year and have kept a manageable size. I think hackberry tree don’t get much thick with time and there essences of tree that are chosen to be put in the street because they don’t grow that much in European climate.

    • @x00z
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      120 minutes ago

      I don’t think the trees will grow much more.

    • @makyo
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      62 hours ago

      I have similar trees in front of my apartment building and I love them, they make me feel like I’m living in a tree house in the summer.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 hours ago

      It took two years to do the transformation. Do you think it’ll be difficult to do another transformation when the time comes?

        • @[email protected]
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          93 hours ago

          Dude, there are whole industries based on cutting down trees once they have grown.

          What are you smoking? … can I have some?

          • @surewhynotlem
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            92 hours ago

            Cities don’t want to pay for that. No one is backing logging equipment down a Paris side street.

            But yeah, it’s not an issue. I’m sure people planted trees knowing they get bigger. Lemmings just like to point to obvious issues as if no one thought about them.

          • @ByteJunk
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            43 hours ago

            You should get a prescription, it will do wonders to your humour.

    • @jaybone
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      33 hours ago

      Can’t you cut trees to make them grow tall and skinny?

      • @moonbunny
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        22 hours ago

        I don’t know, I’m not a tree expert. I mean it would be cool if that’s how it works tho

  • Humanius
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    6 hours ago

    While this is nice, I do not really see any places where one can now cross the street?
    Some cut-outs for pedestrians would probably be helpful for people who need to access a building on the other side.

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        I don’t mean crosswalks, I mean places where people can cut through the greenery to get to the “road”.
        As it stands now I don’t see a way for people to actually get to the other side of the street.

        Maybe they exist, but I don’t see them in the picture…

        • @jaybone
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          43 hours ago

          You mean like access front doors of buildings? It looks like they block everything.

        • NaibofTabr
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          145 hours ago

          Oh, I see what you mean. You’re right, if there’s a path through the bushes it’s not obvious.

    • DarkThoughts
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      156 hours ago

      Yeah. I’d do more little islands instead, which would also give space for other stuff, like benches or other seating areas, bike racks, etc.

      • Humanius
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        55 hours ago

        Move the road over to one side, and give double space for greenery on the other side.
        Then you can add benches, playgrounds, etc.

        Still… As it currently stands it is an improvement over what came before

    • TheTechnician27
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      86 hours ago

      Definitely agreed. Strictly better than cars, but there has to be something we’re missing here, else this is a huuuge pain in the ass for literally no reason.

      • @[email protected]
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        131 minutes ago

        I have to disagree. Amenities such as benchs, and playgrounds can be place into the next street but there is a need to add important vegetation at least in some streets of dense urban environment to deal with heat wave and flood issues.

        • TheTechnician27
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          119 minutes ago

          The problem isn’t the vegetation; it’s the lack of outlets to the other side of the road amid the vegetation. From the perspective shown here, it’s a solid 40-ish metere until the next entrance to the sidewalk.

          • @[email protected]
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            112 minutes ago

            That is probably just perspective. By zooming, I can see two possibles places when they might be outlets.

    • @jaybone
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      33 hours ago

      He couldn’t be in the photo because he was too busy taking his underaged son to P Diddy’s sex parties.

      • @[email protected]
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        -15 hours ago

        Yes and no. Yes because fuck big corps that buy houses and set rent price to achieve fill factor of 0.7, no because very these corps buy cheap dirty houses, renovate them, and double the rent.

        • @Valmond
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          23 hours ago

          I bet you don’t live in Paris or even France.

          There is a lock on rent in heated housing markets for example. Not everything in the US is the same on this side of the pond.

    • @JubilantJaguar
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      55 hours ago

      So: keep cities horrible so that the rent stays low. Got it.

    • @NarrativeBear
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      45 hours ago

      I think your statment here is actual in reverse of what you may want to point out.

      An increase in rent shows a induced demand for the property. More people are wanting to live in this location, thus the rents have gone up because of this demand. The rent did not go up because of the cost of installing those trees, but because the trees are there.

      Similarly homes located near public parks, schools, hospitals, or transit may have a higher price tag because more people want said properties.

      • @[email protected]
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        -14 hours ago

        An increase in rent shows a induced demand for the property.

        Nope. Increase in rent shows the pumped up scarcity.

        More people are wanting to live in this location, thus the rents have gone up because of this demand.

        Again nope. You are spreading propaganda without knowing it. Rent is driven by rental algorithms like Yardi and Realpage. Supply and demand do not work if the property is in the hands of few that calculate their prices using the same database and the same algorithms.

        • @jaybone
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          23 hours ago

          You mean shitty places with no amenities rent for the same as desirable locations because of algorithms? TIL

          • @[email protected]
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            11 hour ago

            No, they renovate it to increase the property class, rent cost for this one, and rent prices overall